A New Web UI for Spark

The team behind Hue, the open source Web UI that makes Apache Hadoop easier to use, strikes again with a new Spark app.

Editor’s note: This post was recently published on the Hue blog. We republish it here for your convenience.

Hi Spark Makers!

A Hue application for Apache Spark (incubating) was recently created. It lets users execute and monitor Spark jobs directly from their browser and be more productive.

We previously released the app with an Apache Oozie submission backend but switched to the Spark Job Server (SPARK-818) contributed by Ooyala and Evan’s team at the last Spark Summit. This new server will enable a real interactivity with Spark and is closer to the community.

We hope to work with the community and have support for Python, Java, direct script submission without compiling/uploading and other improvements in the future!

Get Started!

Currently only Scala jobs are supported and programs need to implement this trait and be packaged into a jar. Here is a WordCount example. To learn more about Spark Job Server, check its README.